Category: Consumption

Green city art

Green cities grow from the roots

Royal climate change researcher Harriet Bulkeley doesn’t believe that directives from above cause us to change our behaviour. On the other hand, she believes in the creative and fumbling environmental experiments that she has seen popping up in cities around the world. Now she is going to study climate-friendly initiatives...

Satellite images can be used to see the expansion of agriculture in North Korea.

Satellite images reveal economic growth in North Korea

A unique way of combining satellite imaging methods has shown that regional agricultural growth is slowly taking place within North Korea. A Lund University research team has identified an expansion of agricultural land far away from the ruling elite in Pyongyang. Satellite images of night-time lights are a common way...

Håkan Wallander

The earth we inherit

Opinion by Håkan Wallander, Professor of Soil Biology and Environmental Science, Lund University 2014 If we divide the earth’s cultivable land between all its inhabitants, each person gets just 2 000 m2. How can we change the way we live so that there is enough space for everyone? In the...